Renee Zarate's Bolton House life. Some days are spent in the art studio, others are spent out in the garden or in the kitchen. It changes just like weather.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

AIRs Artists Challenge using Wooden Embellishments

Have you seen the wooden embellishments that so many artists are adding to their projects lately? For this challenge I am using a wooden embellishment made by Monterey Pine. It is shaped like an oval and readily accepts paint and ink. In this instance I inked it and then stamped on it with StazOn. After it was dry I coated the wooden piece with a shiny coat of GooseBumps. Let me show you the finished project and then if you're interested you can read the directions showing how the card was made.

Stack the white card stock pieces by starting
with the smallest panel and apply a small amount of temporary adhesive in the
center of the piece, layer that piece on to the medium sized piece of white cardstock. Place this piece in the center of the larger
piece, apply temporary adhesive to the back of the medium sized panel and
adhere it to the center of the largest white panel.

Choose your largest stamp, turn the stamp upside
down and ink it up with StazOn Jet Black ink.
Lay the cut and glued white panel on top of the ink and use a brayer to
insure the best inking. Dry the ink with
a heat gun.

When the ink is dry, pull the three stamped panels apart. Mat each piece of the stamped image on a piece of black card stock that measures a quarter of an inch larger than the white panels (you have already pre-cut the black card stock panels).

Now you are going to reassemble the stamped image, making sure that you line up the stamped image. When the three panels are reassembled wrap a piece of turquoise baker’s twine around the left side, attach a couple of extra tied bows to the knot.

Stamp the bird with Memento Luxe Teal Zeal ink, heat emboss with clear powder, cut out the image when cooled. Dip the wooden embellishment piece in the Memento Luxe Teal Zeal ink, stamp phrase on it using StazOn black ink, dry. Coat the phrase with GooseBumps and allow to dry thoroughly.Use adhesive to attach the blue bird. Use a strong adhesive to attach the blue wooden embellishment. Distress edges of the card using a Memento Ink Pen in Teal Zeal blue.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed the mini tutorial, have a great day. Talk to you soon ~ Renee

A very elegant and beautiful card !! Love your way of doing it... and showing us how yo do ! I've never tried to use my brayer directly to reverse an inked image so far... must try ! Thank you for this simple and very pleasant tute Renee. Hugs Coco